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as we know it, medicare as we know it ends in 12 years. that's not allen west, that is the actuaries and trustees of medicare and social security saying those things. >> reporter: the issue of the ryan plan, while a flashpoint now in florida, has been years in the making in washington. it was back in 2008 when ryan first proposed it as a way to curb spending. since then? a number of bi-partisan efforts to tackle the debt have failed. last spring, president obama took the issues of medicare and debt to the stage in washington. >> i will not allow medicare to become a voucher program that leaves seniors at the mercy of the insurance industry; with shrinking benefits to pay rising costs. >> reporter: with ryan in the front row mr. obama laid bare the agenda for a political season that hadn't yet arrived. in the primaries, former governor mitt romney said he fully supported the ryan plan, but he has since backed away from a complete endorsement. >> people become concerned. no changes for current retirees >> reporter: meanwhile, democrats acros
as we know it, medicare as we know it ends in 12 years. that's not allen west, that is the actuaries and trustees of medicare and social security saying those things. >> reporter: the issue of the ryan plan, while a flashpoint now in florida, has been years in the making in washington. it was back in 2008 when ryan first proposed it as a way to curb spending. since then? a number of bi-partisan efforts to tackle the debt have failed. last spring, president obama took the issues of...
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it extends the life of medicare another eight years. it also closes the doughnut hole, partially closes the doughnut hole for seniors on prescription drugs, and seniors now get free preventive care. so seniors have actually benefited from this. the insurance companies took a cut, and when romney says he will take that money back, he wants to give it back to the insurance companies. that's not a good deal for seniors. but romney's gift is mixing facts and falsehoods, putting them together in a powerpoint presentation so that the president was left standing there for the most of the time looking pretty flumaxed. he didn't know how to come back against that rapid fire. >> the fact is the governor romney intends to repeal obamacare but i don't think he can do it because the democratic senate -- we're not going to have 60 senators. i think that the point is that obama, that's right, obama could not respond, in the way eleanor is responding now, and why couldn't he do it standing up there and defend his own program? >> can we talk about -- ho
it extends the life of medicare another eight years. it also closes the doughnut hole, partially closes the doughnut hole for seniors on prescription drugs, and seniors now get free preventive care. so seniors have actually benefited from this. the insurance companies took a cut, and when romney says he will take that money back, he wants to give it back to the insurance companies. that's not a good deal for seniors. but romney's gift is mixing facts and falsehoods, putting them together in a...
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the feds launch one of the largest crackdowns on medicare fraud. $430 million in scams leads to arrests from coast to coast. >> tom: and we'll introduce you to a company hoping to become the mcdonald's for healthy eaters. >> susie: that and more tonight on nbr! >> tom: it was right back to the campaign trail today for president obama and mitt romney. the president went on the attack after what's been perceived as a lackluster debate performance. and the president accused governor romney of not telling americans the truth about what president obama calls romney's $5 trillion tax plan. darren gersh, tonight, looks at what the real impact of the romney tax plan could be on the american economy. >> reporter: here's where the president gets that $5 trillion number he used again today. governor romney's plan to cut tax rates by 20% would add up to about $5 trillion over ten years, assuming no other changes. but governor romney is planning to make other changes by eliminating tax deductions worth about the same amount. but the president is accurate when he says governor romney is making many p
the feds launch one of the largest crackdowns on medicare fraud. $430 million in scams leads to arrests from coast to coast. >> tom: and we'll introduce you to a company hoping to become the mcdonald's for healthy eaters. >> susie: that and more tonight on nbr! >> tom: it was right back to the campaign trail today for president obama and mitt romney. the president went on the attack after what's been perceived as a lackluster debate performance. and the president accused...
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open enrollment for medicare part d, the prescription drug corage. here's raren gibbs, founder of the gibbs perspective. >> it's open enrollment time for medicare part d.e' if you're 65 years or older, disabled or a care giver for someone on medicare, you have from now until december 7 to review and modify your prescription drug plan. approximately 49 million people are enrolled in medicare part d and can expect an average annual premium increase of 7%, but increases can vary from as low as 1% to as much as 23%. any changes you make will be efftive january 1, 2013. medicare has increased coverage for brand name and generic drugs in the donut hole, the gap between initial efverage limitia and maximum coverage and expanded coverage to include depression, alcohol abuse and cardiovascular disease.ma compare the cost of prescription drugs, both brand name and generic; determine if your preferred pharmacy is in the plan's network; and consider whether you want co-insurance or co-payment coverage some combination of both. with more benefits, better choices
open enrollment for medicare part d, the prescription drug corage. here's raren gibbs, founder of the gibbs perspective. >> it's open enrollment time for medicare part d.e' if you're 65 years or older, disabled or a care giver for someone on medicare, you have from now until december 7 to review and modify your prescription drug plan. approximately 49 million people are enrolled in medicare part d and can expect an average annual premium increase of 7%, but increases can vary from as low...
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the vice-presidential candidates will slug it out on the economy, medicare and taxes. they may be number two on the ticket, but these men hope they can make this another crucial turning point in an election that is now almost a dead heat. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: vice-presidential debates are often more entertaining than important, but not this time. joe biden will be trying to beat back the romney bump from the first presidential debate; and paul ryan will be working to stretch mitt romney's debate double into a home run. >> if ryan does really, really well, it could possibly fundamentally make this a real horse race, not just nationally but in the battleground states. so, i think there is a lot of expectation on both sides for what this debate possible could do. >> reporter: if you thought the first presidential debate was bogged down in statistics and policy details, you'll have more fun tonight. debate veterans are expecting fireworks. jeff nesbit was press secretary for former vice-president dan quayle. >> while both of them can go deep on wonky politics
the vice-presidential candidates will slug it out on the economy, medicare and taxes. they may be number two on the ticket, but these men hope they can make this another crucial turning point in an election that is now almost a dead heat. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: vice-presidential debates are often more entertaining than important, but not this time. joe biden will be trying to beat back the romney bump from the first presidential debate; and paul ryan will be working to stretch...
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sreenivasan: today georgia's care is paid for by both medicaid and medicare. matthew's medicaid application ipending but both of them had to spend just about everything they saved to be poor enough to qualify for medicaid. after paying for prescriptions and other medical expenses each month they keep just $74 of the check they get from social security and veterans and retirement benefits. the rest goes to the nursing home. >> i had to dump all my stock. i had to dump my life insurance policy, her life insurance policy had to be dumped. they kept money out which we could to arrange for our funeral. a gravesite. the rest of the money we turned over -- i'm not complaining that's the way the game is. but now we're totally dependent on medicaid. >> sreenivasan: their story is all too familiar, according to matt. >> anyone of us at an advanced age really is just one fall away from a broken hip and then a spiraling out of conditions that could end you up in a nursing home or some other kind of, you know, life-altering decision. >> sreenivasan: for most states medicai
sreenivasan: today georgia's care is paid for by both medicaid and medicare. matthew's medicaid application ipending but both of them had to spend just about everything they saved to be poor enough to qualify for medicaid. after paying for prescriptions and other medical expenses each month they keep just $74 of the check they get from social security and veterans and retirement benefits. the rest goes to the nursing home. >> i had to dump all my stock. i had to dump my life insurance...
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about 25% on health care including medicare and medicaid, another 20% oro on social security. americans do see the deficit as a problem, we just can't agree on how to solve it. >> i would cut a fair bit of the entitlements, we need entitlement reform. >> i wouldn't cut defense. >> considering we have so much defense as it is, i'd utt a little more there, perhaps and not quite as much as social welfare. >> i don't know exactly what to cut. if i did, i'd probably run for office. (laughter) >> reporter: on the other hand, if he did know and ran on drastic cuts he probably wouldn't win. h meanwhile, wessle escorts us to the treasury department to explain one last fact slice of the pie: yearly interest on the $16 trillion national debt. >> alexander hamilt was the first secretary of the treasuil and in many ways he's the father of the federal debt. after the revutionary war, he convinced all the individualry states instead of trying to pay their debts off individually-- problems proving a big for some of them-- he convinced them to combine them all so we had one federal debt and --
about 25% on health care including medicare and medicaid, another 20% oro on social security. americans do see the deficit as a problem, we just can't agree on how to solve it. >> i would cut a fair bit of the entitlements, we need entitlement reform. >> i wouldn't cut defense. >> considering we have so much defense as it is, i'd utt a little more there, perhaps and not quite as much as social welfare. >> i don't know exactly what to cut. if i did, i'd probably run for...
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the insurer's newest medicare prescription drug offering for next year excludes big pharmacies such as wal-mart and c.v.s. from its preferred list. hospital operator tenet was up 3.3% after announcing a $500 million stock buyback plan, and said it would make $400 million of acquisitions soon. monday mergers, in the materials sector. ceradyne makes ceramic products used in the defense and auto industries. for instance, it makes lightweight armor for military helmets. conglomerate 3-m is the buyer. the price tag is about $860 million, including ceradyne's cash and short term investments. ceradyne shares will get $35 per share. the offer sent shares of ceradyne up 43.1 on heavy volume. the stock closed just shy of the buyout price. the buyer: 3m, moved 0.9% higher, closing about $1 below a 52 week high. just a month ago, 3-m scrapped plans to buy the officer and consumer products division of avery dennison. that deal died after the department of justice threatened to sue over anti-trust concerns. there's no deal for business software firm b.m.c., but it is looking for one. the stock ralli
the insurer's newest medicare prescription drug offering for next year excludes big pharmacies such as wal-mart and c.v.s. from its preferred list. hospital operator tenet was up 3.3% after announcing a $500 million stock buyback plan, and said it would make $400 million of acquisitions soon. monday mergers, in the materials sector. ceradyne makes ceramic products used in the defense and auto industries. for instance, it makes lightweight armor for military helmets. conglomerate 3-m is the...
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i think it's stunning when you look at medicare, health care and foreign policy, sure, the president still has a narrow advantage on all those issues. but mitt romney suddenly is in the ballgame almost even with the president on these certainly two of the medicare and health care traditionally democratic issues. that's a stunning development, i think. >> warner: how does this lay the table for the vice presidents' debates? it clearly raises the stakes. >> traditionally vice president shall debates have not made very much difference in the outcome of elections. democrats are worried they are losing momentum that they see all these gains for governor romney on so many fronts. this will be a chance for vice president biden maybe to prosecute the case in a more effective way than president obama did in his debate and get some of that momentum back rather than waiting for the next presidential debate which is a week later on long island. >> warner: what does the obama campaign think though, stu, that vice president biden has to sort of either undo or do to shift the energy here? >> i thin
i think it's stunning when you look at medicare, health care and foreign policy, sure, the president still has a narrow advantage on all those issues. but mitt romney suddenly is in the ballgame almost even with the president on these certainly two of the medicare and health care traditionally democratic issues. that's a stunning development, i think. >> warner: how does this lay the table for the vice presidents' debates? it clearly raises the stakes. >> traditionally vice...
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as much as they should have been, the jobs and medicare. i think actually the republicans dodged a bullet because with ryan sitting right there, biden could have spent a lot of time on medicare, attacking the ryan plan which is an unpopular plan. and i think the republicans since it was so truncated they dodged that one. >> i just think joe biden was taken on one against two. i mean so the case, for example, he pointed out which the president didn't even mention last week, that paul ryan had been a sponsor of president bush's bill, to privatize partially social security. and you know, i thought maybe they aren't new issues but to most voters they are new issues. and i thought he raised them very effectively. what joe biden can do is joe biden can talk and put a human face on issues. it doesn't sound like a washington think tank or a policy conference of white papers. joe biden talks like he just came from talking to people whether it's in a church haul or in a community centre. and that is a-- that's a great gift, something the democrats ne
as much as they should have been, the jobs and medicare. i think actually the republicans dodged a bullet because with ryan sitting right there, biden could have spent a lot of time on medicare, attacking the ryan plan which is an unpopular plan. and i think the republicans since it was so truncated they dodged that one. >> i just think joe biden was taken on one against two. i mean so the case, for example, he pointed out which the president didn't even mention last week, that paul ryan...
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>> such as reforming social security, medicare, higher taxes, lower taxes? >> yes. and on the table are all sorts of things that many people value a great deal and we may not be able to afford anymore. so should we have deductibility for second home mortgages? should we have deductibility for high-cost homes? should we have health insurance coverage provided by employers continue to be deductible? if so, for whom, should it be for all? and should we raise the age of entitlement, if so, to what level?" when someone says that about social programs, i want to also hear the answer to the question, "what are you doing with military spending? and how do you justify the tradeoff? we've gotta get the revenue someplace. where are you willing to cut? and if not, why not? when you're putting really valued things on the table. and simply saying that the wealthy are going to pay more doesn't solve the problem. the wealthy are going to need to pay more, but so is what most people define as the middle class, and there are going to be cuts across the board, including the military,
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medicare payments to doctors would be cut by 2%. things likeood safety spspectors, the government has warned that f.b.i. agents could be left off. all kinds of thin could happen if this lasts mo than a few weeks. the reality is there is probably some time early in january with the new president, whoever it is, sworn in to deal with thiss situation. and, you know, the thing is that people talk about it being a trillion dollar issue its a ten-year issue. $109 billion next year. if the congress can come together on something li $50 billion, they can kick it halfway into next year and have time to deal with it in sort of a more rational basis.ti ne ifill: and, but, joshua, other thing that has to happen as you pointed out, plan ahead. these defense contractors plan ahead. these people who a building the planes and the ships plan ahead. don't they have to base their wdget baseed on what they know which is what the deal is? >> right. first let me say i largely agree with everything steven said but again he's are all economic analysts base
medicare payments to doctors would be cut by 2%. things likeood safety spspectors, the government has warned that f.b.i. agents could be left off. all kinds of thin could happen if this lasts mo than a few weeks. the reality is there is probably some time early in january with the new president, whoever it is, sworn in to deal with thiss situation. and, you know, the thing is that people talk about it being a trillion dollar issue its a ten-year issue. $109 billion next year. if the congress...
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not that everybody is going to follow every medicare reform plan you have, economic policy you have. they want to be treated like adults. if the president gives us a hint of an agenda that would be a breakthrough. >> could you dissent a little from david. we have the highest right direction number since june of '09. there is a growing sense of confidence. it's an improvement. the people who think the economy is getting better has increased by 17 points since july. i mean, there's really a sense-- the president has to confirm to them that he, a., his policies have made a difference in this improvement, that they are right in sensing the improvement, and they can take it from here. when asked who is better prepared to lead the nation over the next four years, by a 13-point margin, 49-36, people say the president-- 35, say the president over mitt romney. even people who are voting for mitt romney don't think he's better prepared. that's what the president has to accomplish, i think. >> woodruff: david, finally, and quickly, you touched on this earlier. there is this conversation that de
not that everybody is going to follow every medicare reform plan you have, economic policy you have. they want to be treated like adults. if the president gives us a hint of an agenda that would be a breakthrough. >> could you dissent a little from david. we have the highest right direction number since june of '09. there is a growing sense of confidence. it's an improvement. the people who think the economy is getting better has increased by 17 points since july. i mean, there's really a...
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how are we going to address the housing crisis and what are you gointo do togo protect medicare and social security? i have strong positions on those issues. my opponent does not. >> reporter: tarkanian has benefited from his family's well known name here but failed to win an election in three prior attempts at public office. he has his own take on this race. >> i've tried very hard to get out to all the different areas within the community. i've had business h meetings. i've had meetings with business leaders in theti african-americn community talking about businesses who are there and how we can help them get started and expand. at the same time i've been out in areas talking to the onion farmers and some of the ranchers about the issues they're dealing with with workers and so forth. i've tried very hard to be a go representative and good a good understanding of what's r important for those constituent >> reporter: in august the campaign was infused with racial tension when tarkanian seemed to suggest that horsford was relying on his own ethnicity to win support from african-american vo
how are we going to address the housing crisis and what are you gointo do togo protect medicare and social security? i have strong positions on those issues. my opponent does not. >> reporter: tarkanian has benefited from his family's well known name here but failed to win an election in three prior attempts at public office. he has his own take on this race. >> i've tried very hard to get out to all the different areas within the community. i've had business h meetings. i've had...
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friends, commenting, reading about big bird or bders full of women or whatever is the catch phrase or medicare and so with a different way of consuming political information than passively sitting on your couch a clickner your hand. >> and that's very much this younger generation. when you're designing ade web se as we did, it has to be interactive. it can't just be static information anymore that is given to yu. people want the ability to click here and click there and feel like they're a part of it. the same thing now is true in politics. >> and that describes lauren who is always on twitter. >> suarez: howard kurtz, lauren ashburn, good to talk to you both. >> warner: finally tonight, a treasure trove of presidential recordings. richard nixon may have had the most famous secret taping system in the white house, but his was not the first. in 1962, john f. kennedy installed his own-- capturin conversations with his advisers, world leaders, former presidents, and even with his family. he began taping just before the cuban missile crisis, when the u.s. and theoviet union went up to the brink of
friends, commenting, reading about big bird or bders full of women or whatever is the catch phrase or medicare and so with a different way of consuming political information than passively sitting on your couch a clickner your hand. >> and that's very much this younger generation. when you're designing ade web se as we did, it has to be interactive. it can't just be static information anymore that is given to yu. people want the ability to click here and click there and feel like they're...
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you tell americans you are entitled and dependent on the government because of social security and medicare, that showed a great deal of insensitivity. >> brown: pastor stevens also had a greater concern about missed opportunities. >> this shouldn't be an election about voting against the other guy. this should be an election about voting for the person who is is going to benefit your community. >> brown: you're not seeing that from either party? >> neither party. neither party >> brown: the two parties intending to stir enthusiasm in the weeks before the vote, that might well be a sobering message indeed. >> ifill: you can find more on jeff's trip to north >> ifill: you can find more on jeff's trip to north carolina, including his foray into mixed martial arts on our web site. watch his newsroom conversation with political editor christina bellantoni, plus a behind-the- scenes slideshow, on our politics page. >> woodruff: the newshour and npr are tracking how the presidential campaigns are spending their ad dollars to target specific demographic groups in battlegrounds like north carolina,
you tell americans you are entitled and dependent on the government because of social security and medicare, that showed a great deal of insensitivity. >> brown: pastor stevens also had a greater concern about missed opportunities. >> this shouldn't be an election about voting against the other guy. this should be an election about voting for the person who is is going to benefit your community. >> brown: you're not seeing that from either party? >> neither party....
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aimed at saving medicare. obama care takes money out of medicare to pay for a program that seniors can't use and most people don't want and i can tell you, seniors understand once medicare is seen as a cash cow to pay for the federal budget no matter what it is you can wave good-bye to it. i think that's a powerful point. i thought paul did a good job last night talking about it and i'm sure governor romney will in the next debate. >> senator jim talent thanks for joining us. >> thank you, andrea. >> up next, the democratic take on last night's debate. party chair deppby wasserman-schultz. >> time for the your business entrepreneur of the week. former model and goldman sachs analyst created shoptiques that helps local boutiques that don't have their own sites sell on-line. she knows content sells and launched a companion on-line magazine as an ultimate source for what's in. for more watch your business sunday morning at 7:30 on msnbc. [ female announcer ] beef, meet flavor boost. flavor boost, meet beef. it's
aimed at saving medicare. obama care takes money out of medicare to pay for a program that seniors can't use and most people don't want and i can tell you, seniors understand once medicare is seen as a cash cow to pay for the federal budget no matter what it is you can wave good-bye to it. i think that's a powerful point. i thought paul did a good job last night talking about it and i'm sure governor romney will in the next debate. >> senator jim talent thanks for joining us. >>...
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we did not cut medicare. we did not have medicare, but we did not cut it by $700 billion. we did not put together a board telling people what treatments they can receive. we put people in a position -- we did not put people in a position where they would lose the insurance they have an wanted. the cbo says up to 20 million people will leave -- lose their insurance. a study said 30% of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. for those reasons, for the tax, medicare, this board, and for people losing insurance, this is why the american people do not want obamacare. not do this. the republicans put out a bipartisan plan that was swept aside. i think something this big and important has to be done on a bipartisan basis. we have to have a president i can reach across the aisle with input from both parties. >> gov. romney says this has to be done on a bipartisan basis. this was a republican idea. gov. romney at the beginning of the debate said, what we did in massachusetts could be a model for the nation. i agree the democratic legislators and massachusetts might ha
we did not cut medicare. we did not have medicare, but we did not cut it by $700 billion. we did not put together a board telling people what treatments they can receive. we put people in a position -- we did not put people in a position where they would lose the insurance they have an wanted. the cbo says up to 20 million people will leave -- lose their insurance. a study said 30% of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. for those reasons, for the tax, medicare, this board, and...
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people currently getting medicare or close to getting medicare, he would get the same old medicare that you have today. those who are 55, 54, and younger, they would have to be under this new plan. you can wander why they would have that delay. maybe it is because it takes a long time to set up, may be it is because seniors go out and vote. host: kerry, republican. caller: i will be turning 65 in december. i think obama is the one who is destroying medicare, because many doctors, and i have talked to many people running my age who are on medicare -- they are getting to the point where they will accept medicare anymore. that is very sad. i think mr. ryan is right on target with tweaking the system, and ms. ethridge said that people who are on medicare for the next 10 years, there will be no major changes. i think that the idea of the voucher system and tweaking is the way to go. one more comment. mr. obama talks about the rich and how romney is rich. he has made it a dirty word to become rich, and he hangs with every celebrity and every rich person there is. as far as connections to peop
people currently getting medicare or close to getting medicare, he would get the same old medicare that you have today. those who are 55, 54, and younger, they would have to be under this new plan. you can wander why they would have that delay. maybe it is because it takes a long time to set up, may be it is because seniors go out and vote. host: kerry, republican. caller: i will be turning 65 in december. i think obama is the one who is destroying medicare, because many doctors, and i have...
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right now, if you are on medicare, what happens, the government pays medicare. medicare pays the hospital. the hospital takes care of you. under this plan, the government would pay you and you would pay medicare or a private insurance company to take care of you. they believe this will create competition and that competition will thrive costs down. two very different approaches to the same problem, two very different ways at getting at a very come protection problem, and there are critics. >> each plan says the other side has some hidden dangers. what are they specifically talking about? >> let's bring back the candidates. the fundamental complaint, right now maybe you are shoving these costs off on the health care providers. over time, maybe health care providers will let the trickle down to recipients. maybe they pull out of the system, where do these people go? republican plan, about going to the private sector. private sector involved in health care a long time and costs have gone up anyway. still, each side trying to come up with its own solution to a probl
right now, if you are on medicare, what happens, the government pays medicare. medicare pays the hospital. the hospital takes care of you. under this plan, the government would pay you and you would pay medicare or a private insurance company to take care of you. they believe this will create competition and that competition will thrive costs down. two very different approaches to the same problem, two very different ways at getting at a very come protection problem, and there are critics....
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of course we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't have a board that told people what treatments they could receive. we didn't also do something i think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put people in a position where they'll lose insurance they had and they wanted. right now, the cbo says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as obama care goes into effect next week. likewise, a study by mckenzie and company said 30% are anticipating dropping them from coverage. for those reasons, for the tax, for medicare, for this board, and for people losing their insurance, this is why the american people don't want obama care. it's why republicans said do not do this. and the republicans had a plan. they put a plan, a bipartisan plan. it was swept aside. i think something this big, this important, has to be done on a bipartisan basis. we have to have a president that can reach across the aisle and fashion legislation with input from both parties. >> governor romney said this has to be done with a bi
of course we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't have a board that told people what treatments they could receive. we didn't also do something i think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put people in a position where they'll lose insurance they had and they wanted. right now, the cbo says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as obama care goes into effect next week. likewise, a study by mckenzie and company said 30% are...
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we did not cut medicare. we did not have medicare, but we did not cut it by $700 billion. we did not put together a board telling people what treatments they can receive. we put people in a position -- we did not put people in a position where they would lose the insurance they have an wanted. the cbo says up to 20 million people will leave -- lose their insurance. a study said 30% of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. for those reasons, for the tax, medicare, this board, and for people losing insurance, this is why the american people do not want obamacare. is why the republicans said do not do this. the republicans put out a bipartisan plan that was swept aside. i think something this big and important has to be done on a bipartisan basis. we have to have a president i can reach across the aisle with input from both parties. >> gov. romney says this has to be done on a bipartisan basis. this was a republican idea. gov. romney at the beginning of the debate said, what we did in massachusetts could be a model for the nation. i agree the democratic legisla
we did not cut medicare. we did not have medicare, but we did not cut it by $700 billion. we did not put together a board telling people what treatments they can receive. we put people in a position -- we did not put people in a position where they would lose the insurance they have an wanted. the cbo says up to 20 million people will leave -- lose their insurance. a study said 30% of them are anticipating dropping people from coverage. for those reasons, for the tax, medicare, this board, and...
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we have 4 million people on medicare advantage that, will lose medicare advantage because of the $716 billion in cuts. i can't understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for current recipients. you point out, we are putting some back with a bettered prescription program. that's $1 for every $15 you have cut. they're smart enough to know, that's not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion and put it back into medicare, by the way, we can include a prescription program if we need to improve it. but the idea of cutting $716 billion from medicare to balance obamacare is, in my opinion, a mistake. with regard to young people coming along, viproposals to make sure that medicare and social security are there for them, without any question. >> jim: mr. president? >> first of all, i think it's important for governor romney present this plan that he said will only affect folks in the future. and the essence of the plan is that he would turn medicare into a voucher program. it's called premium support. but it's understood to be a voucher program -- >> jim: you don't support that? >>
we have 4 million people on medicare advantage that, will lose medicare advantage because of the $716 billion in cuts. i can't understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for current recipients. you point out, we are putting some back with a bettered prescription program. that's $1 for every $15 you have cut. they're smart enough to know, that's not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion and put it back into medicare, by the way, we can include a prescription program if we need to...
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i cannot understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for recipients of medicare. you point out, well, were putting some back to get a better prescription program. that's $1 for every $15 you have cut. they're smart enough to know that's not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion to have cut and put it back in the medicare. we can include a prescription program, but the idea of cutting $716 billion from medicare to be able to balance the additional cost of obamacare, in my opinion, is a mistake. with regards to young people coming along, i've got proposals to make sure medicare and social security are there for them without any question. >> this is "democracy now!" with the third party president to canada's rocky anderson and jill stein. jim lehrer has just asked about social security and the so- called entitlements. >> i think it is very important to point out that while we hear a very different meritage from barack obama and the democrats that we do from that romney, we have met romney's narrative being usually harsh, scary, selfishness on steroids, and t
i cannot understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for recipients of medicare. you point out, well, were putting some back to get a better prescription program. that's $1 for every $15 you have cut. they're smart enough to know that's not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion to have cut and put it back in the medicare. we can include a prescription program, but the idea of cutting $716 billion from medicare to be able to balance the additional cost of obamacare, in my opinion,...
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i support medicare. i am running because my poems represent the failed policies of the major corporate on the parties. they are talking about dollars for dollars instead of solving problems. solutions can't wait. >> moderator: thank you, ursala rozum. thank you to all of our candidates. it is hard to be a candidate and hard to serve the people. we appreciate all of you being here. so the first question is. it is about the fiscal cliff. it is about the bush tax cuts and the sequestration cuts and the debt limit crisis in august 2012. both come due in december. both presidential candidates are recommending that we cut the deficit. yet a partisan impactor means. 75% of voters polled and nbc wall street journal poll this week that they want congress to find a compromise and end up out of debt. what do you think compromised is and what you think it will do as far as undermining voters? we go to ann marie buerkle verse. buekle: you are absolutely right, thank you very much for the end of this year will signal
i support medicare. i am running because my poems represent the failed policies of the major corporate on the parties. they are talking about dollars for dollars instead of solving problems. solutions can't wait. >> moderator: thank you, ursala rozum. thank you to all of our candidates. it is hard to be a candidate and hard to serve the people. we appreciate all of you being here. so the first question is. it is about the fiscal cliff. it is about the bush tax cuts and the sequestration...
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they talked about medicare. they want to make medicare into a coupon program. that's what paul ryan and mitt romney are talking about. our folks are energized, mobilized, they are knocking on doors and passing out leaflets. >> jared? >> look, ohio is a state where the unemployment rate peaked well above the national level. 11%. where the national peaked at 10. and now it got to the 7s well before the national unemployment level got there. it peaked higher and got lower. and a very clear factor at play here is the rescue of the auto industry. now, a lot of people think of the auto industry as the big plants at the end of the line that build the cars and, of course, that is the end of the line. but what is really going on in ohio are a bunch of small businesses in the auto supply chain and there's been thousands and thousands of good, middle class jobs created in that supply chain that absolutely wouldn't be here absence the president's interventions and people in ohio know that and it's a very important fact that the vice president hit on yesterday and again dre
they talked about medicare. they want to make medicare into a coupon program. that's what paul ryan and mitt romney are talking about. our folks are energized, mobilized, they are knocking on doors and passing out leaflets. >> jared? >> look, ohio is a state where the unemployment rate peaked well above the national level. 11%. where the national peaked at 10. and now it got to the 7s well before the national unemployment level got there. it peaked higher and got lower. and a very...
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age and enroll in medicare. with medicaid, the way the program works, if you fall below on poverty sca wle have since 2008, at that point there were about 42 million people on the prog people need to have their own health insurance. neil: you know what i worry about, peter in this debate, you and i chatted about it before, what got to be the distraction in the romney 47 thing. a lot of people got upset, noses properly out of joint, that included soldiers and retirees many who paid into the system for a lot of years and they were rightly upset but when you step back, the question missed accuracy of the percentage. how did we get to 47% paying no income taxes and that many relying on government ben of some sort or another? not that many deserve it but essentially doubled since i got out of college. as we know that was just a few years ago. all right, i'm lying about that. but my point how do we get that under control? the math doesn't favor our continuing to do so? >> you know, that is a good question. i think the
age and enroll in medicare. with medicaid, the way the program works, if you fall below on poverty sca wle have since 2008, at that point there were about 42 million people on the prog people need to have their own health insurance. neil: you know what i worry about, peter in this debate, you and i chatted about it before, what got to be the distraction in the romney 47 thing. a lot of people got upset, noses properly out of joint, that included soldiers and retirees many who paid into the...
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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. bill: former vice-presidential nominee sarah palin knows exactly what it is like to be on the debate stage with vice president biden. she shared the stage with him back in 2008. so too did 70 million viewers at home. last night on "hannity", seemed like it he with trying to make up for president obama's debate with romney a week ago. >> i believe biden was sent in as the attack dog in this debate to compensate for president obama's atrocious performance where he was aloof arrogant and disconnected what was important to the american voter. that was the representation of obama in his own debate last week. bill: we asked the romney team about this question, about the moderator last night. you heard russ shriefer saying they clea
remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. bill: former vice-presidential nominee sarah palin knows exactly what it is like to be on the debate stage with vice president biden. she shared...
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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. the rid-x septic subscriber program helps prevent backups by sending you monthly doses right to your door so you will never forget to maintain your system. sign up at rid-x.com. ♪ work work it girl do your thing on the runway ♪ >>> work it, baby. >> as i split my dress. >> more of the donut. >> sound like a glamorous life, beauty, high fashion, exotic photo shoots, being on the catwalk, probably a cakewalk, isn't it? >> really. so sticky. but it turns out that is not even close, though. being a model is not only hard work it pays next to nothing. abc's linsey davis talked to a woman who is revealing the ugly side of beauty. >> reporter: strutting your stuff on the catwalk and gracing magazine covers have never seemed so u
remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. the rid-x septic subscriber program helps prevent backups by sending you monthly doses right to your door so you will never forget to maintain your...
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including traditional medicare. choose your plan and then medicare subsidizes your premiums. not as much for the wealthy people. more coverage for middle income people and total out of pocket coverage for the poor and the sick. choice and competition. we would rather have 50 million future seniors determine how their medicare is delivered to them, instead of 15 bureaucrats decides what, if, when, where
including traditional medicare. choose your plan and then medicare subsidizes your premiums. not as much for the wealthy people. more coverage for middle income people and total out of pocket coverage for the poor and the sick. choice and competition. we would rather have 50 million future seniors determine how their medicare is delivered to them, instead of 15 bureaucrats decides what, if, when, where
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we didn't cut medicare. of course, we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. we didn't also do something that i think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put people in a position where they're going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. right now the cbo says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as obama care goes into effect next year. and likewise a study of mckinsey and company of american businesses said 30% of them are at risk of being dropped. for those reasons, for the tax, for medicare, for this board and for people losing their insurance, this is why the american people don't want obama care. it's why republicans said do not do this, and the republicans had the plan. they put a plan out. they put a bipartisan plan. it was swept aside. i think something this big, this important, has to be done on a bipartisan basis. and we have
we didn't cut medicare. of course, we don't have medicare but we didn't cut medicare by $716 billion. we didn't put in place a board that can tell people ultimately what treatments they're going to receive. we didn't also do something that i think a number of people across this country recognize, which is put people in a position where they're going to lose the insurance they had and they wanted. right now the cbo says up to 20 million people will lose their insurance as obama care goes into...
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i no medicare pretty well. here is where i would propose change, make sure that medicare can be here for the current generation, the next generation, the generation after that the -- we need to make sure. that is a solemn promise we have made to seniors. that along with social security keep seniors out of poverty. a need to make sure that medicare, dislike the v8 finish the prescription drug prices. tremendous amount of savings. me to make sure that electronic health records are implemented and used to the full advantage of making sure that patients are not getting over prescribed drugs or that they are not -- the health care that they need is not redundant. let's try and health records of do that. and lastly, we can coordinate care with the help of electronic of records, with the help of the provisions under the center for medicare and medicaid innovation i have seen great successes in the health system where i worked, and i know that has great potential savings for the medicare system. >>moderater: congressma
i no medicare pretty well. here is where i would propose change, make sure that medicare can be here for the current generation, the next generation, the generation after that the -- we need to make sure. that is a solemn promise we have made to seniors. that along with social security keep seniors out of poverty. a need to make sure that medicare, dislike the v8 finish the prescription drug prices. tremendous amount of savings. me to make sure that electronic health records are implemented and...
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i cannot understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for current recipients of medicare. you point out, we are putting some back, we will give a better prescription program. that is $1 for every $15 you have cut. that is not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion of cut and put it back into medicare. we can include a prescription program, but the idea of cutting $716 billion from medicare to be able to balance the additional cost of obamacare, in my opinion, would be a mistake. with regards to young people coming along, i have proposals to make sure social security and medicare are there for them without any question. >> first of all, it is important for governor romney to present this plan that he says will only affect folks in the future. the essence of the plan is that he would turn medicare into a voucher program. is call premium support but it is understood to be a voucher program. >> and you don't support that. >> i don't, and let me explain why. if your ticket for are people like, you might want to listen -- if you are 54 or 55, you might want to listen. th
i cannot understand how you can cut medicare $716 billion for current recipients of medicare. you point out, we are putting some back, we will give a better prescription program. that is $1 for every $15 you have cut. that is not a good trade. i want to take that $716 billion of cut and put it back into medicare. we can include a prescription program, but the idea of cutting $716 billion from medicare to be able to balance the additional cost of obamacare, in my opinion, would be a mistake....
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that ought to go into medicare. the one thing that shouldn't be done is what tim kaine supports, and he said previously that obamacare, the healthcare tax law would be, quote, great for democrats. well, the seniors i've heard from don't think it's at all great. that over $700 million is being taken out of medicare to pay for the programs. i've heard from so many folks who -- cardiologists gotten out of the cardiology business. he will be a researcher rather than providing those services, so seniors are going to be having, and are already seeing, difficulty in getting access to physicians because of obamacare taking so much money out of medicare and my general view is that healthcare decisions ought to be made by doctors and patients, not government panels up in washington. >> mr. kaine? >> social security and medicare, again, george as a saerns voted for -- senator, voted for a very risky privatization scheme for social security and i can tell you if i'm in the u.s. science, i will fight efforts to privatize social
that ought to go into medicare. the one thing that shouldn't be done is what tim kaine supports, and he said previously that obamacare, the healthcare tax law would be, quote, great for democrats. well, the seniors i've heard from don't think it's at all great. that over $700 million is being taken out of medicare to pay for the programs. i've heard from so many folks who -- cardiologists gotten out of the cardiology business. he will be a researcher rather than providing those services, so...
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>> the problem is, he would, in effect, turn medicare into a voucher program. the president touched on it but did not stay with it. he allowed romney to get away with it. the voucher program would cause people to take a chunk of money from the government and go out and buy their own insurance. only a limited amount of money would be available. then the costs go up, the senior citizens, who get that, have to pay the differee. the guarantee would be gone. that is the substance of how they would deal with medicare and that is the way it would be. the president did not make the case as effectively as he should of on that. >> that is factually wrong. let me just say, that is factually wrong. under the romney plan, the amount of money the government will give you is equal to the amount of the second lowest bid, meaning that you can get that plan for nothing, or the cheaper plan, there will be one cheaper, and then you can keep the extra money in your pocket. you have a choice, with no expenditure on your part of at least two plans, and you also have a plan for tradit
>> the problem is, he would, in effect, turn medicare into a voucher program. the president touched on it but did not stay with it. he allowed romney to get away with it. the voucher program would cause people to take a chunk of money from the government and go out and buy their own insurance. only a limited amount of money would be available. then the costs go up, the senior citizens, who get that, have to pay the differee. the guarantee would be gone. that is the substance of how they...
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if you're on medicare, what happens is the government pays medicare, medicare pays the hospital, the hospital takes care of you. under this plan, the government would pay you and you would decide if you wanted to buy into medicare or into private insurance. that would create competition between the two and their theory this and is how you get at the very same waste that the white house wants to get at. these are two very complicated, huge programs. there are critics on both sides who say this plan won't work or that plan won't work or this plan will leave people stranded or that plan will leave people stranded. but the truth is, it is complicated. it is hard to deal with all that. if we go with the basic claim, somehow this is about destroying medicare that is simply false. that is a scare tactic no matter which side is saying it. so why are they saying it so much? all you have to do is look at the map and you know, across the country, the baby boomers are getting older. they're becoming a bigger percentage of the voting population fast, all those dark states is where the percentage
if you're on medicare, what happens is the government pays medicare, medicare pays the hospital, the hospital takes care of you. under this plan, the government would pay you and you would decide if you wanted to buy into medicare or into private insurance. that would create competition between the two and their theory this and is how you get at the very same waste that the white house wants to get at. these are two very complicated, huge programs. there are critics on both sides who say this...
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remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. >>shepard: this is "studio b" at the bottom of the hour and time for fox's top story. a senior official for the syrian regime that is murdering its own men and women and children accused the united states and other members of the united nations security council of supporting terrorism. of course, human rights groups have accused the syrian military of a long list of war crimes including the torture, killing, and bombing of innocent people. but in an address to the u.n. general assembly today, syria's foreign minister accused outsiders of fueling all the blood shed. >> we also wonder to what extent the statements made by equal car, saudi arabia, turkey, the united states, france and others to what extent do these statements ca
remember, all medicare supplement insurance plans help cover what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you thousands a year in out-of-pocket costs. call now to request your free decision guide. and learn more about the kinds of plans that will be here for you now -- and down the road. i have a lifetime of experience. so i know how important that is. >>shepard: this is "studio b" at the bottom of the hour and time for fox's top story. a senior official for the syrian regime that...
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and medicare part d. program is an important program, but it wasn't paid for and it costs us between 700 and $800 billion every ten years. thompson: and you stole -- [inaudible] baldwin: the idea -- aarp said that's not true. we did not change one guaranteed benefit in medicare. in fact we strength end. thompson: [inaudible] baldwin: aarp said the allegation is simply not true. thompson: you stole from medicare. 0 took it out and used it . you took for obamacare. who would like to see some more money taken out of medicare to fund obamacare. i don't know if anybody does. [applause] >> moderator: let me jump in here. you have 30 seconds far followup on response. you talked about the sweet heart deal with medicare part k. but under the affordable health care act, there was talk among the democrats let's get rid of it. you had an opportunity when the democrats controlled the house and the senate to get rid of it. why didn't it happen? baldwin: i reget it didn't happen. i'm on legislation and have introduced l
and medicare part d. program is an important program, but it wasn't paid for and it costs us between 700 and $800 billion every ten years. thompson: and you stole -- [inaudible] baldwin: the idea -- aarp said that's not true. we did not change one guaranteed benefit in medicare. in fact we strength end. thompson: [inaudible] baldwin: aarp said the allegation is simply not true. thompson: you stole from medicare. 0 took it out and used it . you took for obamacare. who would like to see some more...